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    <li><a href="../tags/search-engine/index.html#">search-engine</a> </li>
    
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  <p>Search engine file names have &quot;.search&quot; as postfix. When they are clicked, the associated bookmark files with postfix &quot;.search.html&quot; would be appended. Ex: the associated bookmark for &quot;foo.search&quot; is &quot;foo.search.html&quot;.</p>
<p>Any &quot;.search&quot; file can be opened as search engine file, each line of which has one of the following formats:<br>
[Engine name]:[url without '%s' inside]<br>
[Engine name]:[url with '%s' as keyword]<br>
[Engine name]:POST:[post params with '%s' as keyword]:[url]<br>
[Engine name]:[Extra request headers]:[post params with '%s' as keyword]:[url]</p>
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<li>[Extra request headers] Ex. &quot;X-Forwarded-For;8.8.8.8&quot;</li>
<li>when [post params] is empty, the url should have '%s' as keyword.</li>
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<p>Limitations (they are here for performance reasons):</p>
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<li>The first engine in the file must be url without or with '%s'.</li>
<li>Internal scheme engine urls (such as i:, d:, c:) must have '%s', since '%s' format is more general (only type 2 is allowed, since POST makes no sense for internal schemes).</li>
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<h4 id="local-engines">Local engines</h4>
<p>c:[command line with '%s' as keyword]<br>
d:mimetype:[command line with '%s' as keyword]:[base url for external resources]</p>

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<p>Last Modified: 9 April 2025<br>
fix broken links<br>
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